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1535| 1533–1545 | Dai Viet [political events] | Nguyen Kim restores the south of Dai Viet to the Le dynasty, governing from Hue. The usurping Mac family remains in control of the north from Hanoi. | | 1535 | New Spain [political events] | The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V establishes the honest and efficient Spanish statesman Antonio de Mendoza as the first viceroy of New Spain (Mexico) and the audiencia (council of state) of Panama. | | 1535–1545 | Holy Roman Empire, Spanish Netherlands [crime and punishment] | After the failure of the revolution in Münster and the risings elsewhere, about 30,000 Anabaptists are executed in the Netherlands alone; the remainder follow the new pacifist Dutch prophet Menno Simons and cease to be a political force. | | 24 June 1535 | Holy Roman Empire [wars] | The coalition of nobles besieging Münster, aided by information from deserters, assaults the city and ends Anabaptist resistance in a night of carnage. The mutilated body of the revolutionary Anabaptist leader Jan Boekelszoon (John of Leiden) hangs from the cathedral spire, after his execution by the restored bishop Franz von Waldeck in 1536, until 1848. | | July 1535 | Holy Roman Empire, North Africa, Ottoman Empire [wars] | The imperial expedition led by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his Genoese admiral Andrea Doria captures the north African city of Tunis; its Ottoman conqueror, the corsair Khair ad-Din (‘Barbarossa’), flees to Algiers, and the bey (governor), Mulai Hassan, is restored, protected by a Spanish garrison at La Goletta. | | 6 July 1535 | England [crime and punishment] | Thomas More, English humanist and statesman, Lord Chancellor of England 1529–32, is beheaded in London, England, for treasonably refusing to take the oath of loyalty required by King Henry VIII (58). | | 24 August 1535 - 23 June 1537 | Spain, South America [exploration] | The Spanish conquistador Pedro de Mendoza leads an expedition, commissioned by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, to La Plata (modern Argentina/Uruguay/Paraguay) in search of more Inca wealth. He founds temporary settlements on the sites of Buenos Aires, and then Asunción, but dies a failure on the return voyage (23 June 1537). |
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